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Kowwan-uUMulk, 1895.
(Governor of Bushire and Gulf ports.)
Hissam-es-Sultanch, 1S95-96.
(Appointed on the fall of the last with Rukn-cd-Dowlch at Shiraz.)
Iktedar-us-Sultanch, 1897.
Itemad-ul-Sultan, 1897.
Imad-i-Nizam, 1897.
Said-ul-Sultan, 1897.
Mazuffur-i-Nizam Muez-ul-Memalek, 1897.
Darya-Begi, 1897.
Salar Akrom (Salar-i-Moazzim), 1901.
Darya-Begi, March 1904.
C.—Governors of Bandar Abbas.

Ahmed Shah Khan of Minas, died in July 1S76.
Nasir-ul-Mulk, 1876.
Mahomed Hassan Khan, 18S2 (Saad-ul-Mulk).
Mahomed Hussan Khan, 18S3, brothers of Saad-ul-Mulk, 1883.
Mahomed Hassan Mirza, 1885.

IV.—Famine in Persia: The Famine Relief Fund, 1870.72.
5. In 1870-72 a fearful famine raged in Persia, and caused immense suffering
and mortality. In June 1870 Sir C. Alison
Political A., August 1870, Nos. 321-323.
informed the Foreign Office of the impend­
ing famine on account of the scarcity of rain. He apprehended serious trouble
and riots of the hungry mobs. The Persian Government was not prepared to
meet the emergency even to a small extent.
6. On 18th June 1870 Mirza Said Khan addressed a letter to Mr. Alison
stating that information had reached the
Political A., August 1870, Nos. 217.319.
Shah from Shiraz, Bushire and other
harbours of Fars that no rain having fallen the scarcity of food was so great
that most of the inhabitants of those districts had scattered from fear of star­
vation. The Shah’s Government therefore requested that the British Resident
should be asked to use his influence to prevent the English grain merchants from
exporting grain.
7. Bushire had been for some time without a Governor, when under the
pressure of a prospective famine a mob
Political A., August 1870, Nos. 174-z75.
arose and forcibly prevented the exporta­
tion of a cargo of British wheat (Sir C. Alison to the Government of India, dated
28th June 1870).
8. The British Resident (Colonel Pelly) was prepared to hand over all the
grain in the granaries of the British
Political A., January 1871, Nos. 380-300.
merchants to the Persian authorities ; but
there was no authority at the time who would receive it. The British merchants
were then induced to sell their grain to the populace at low rates of price. The
sale was kept up for a month when a Governor appeared on the scene, and to him
was handed over the stock left with the British merchants.
9. Writing in March 1871, Colonel Pelly states in the Administration Report
of the Gulf
Volume 1—92 of 1871.
« Scarcity still prevails in Bushire and its surrounding districts. I understand that
numerous deaths from starvation have occurred along the road between Shiraz and